Digital Altitude REVIEW – Only made $1.52 after $1,725.07 on ADS!
In this Digital Altitude Review you will find out why beginners will actually struggle to make any money with it, and why it doesn't actually convert that well as a system on it's own.
Digital Altitude Review - INTRODUCTION
Here's what we'll go over:
0.) Digital Altitude Review - SUMMARY
Name: Digital Altitude (Aspire System)
Website: Digitalaltitude.co
Owner: Michael Force
Price: Free Trial then $52,712.00 of upsells
Overall Score: 27 out of 100

27 / 100
Summary: Digital Altitude is basically an online MLM or Network Marketing company that focuses on digital high ticket products, giving you the opportunity to work online from home and earn big commissions per sale.
My Main main issue with this program is they put most of their focus on recruiting and up-selling, rather than teaching any actual marketing skills. Although the compensation plan is robust and well structured, it's actually quite hard to get any conversions at all with this system.
1.) What IS Digital Altitude?
It's basically an online network marketing company... or a high ticket affiliate program, with a Multi-Level structure.
They don't sell physical products, just online digital products which are mainly in the form of training modules.
Their main selling point is to give regular people (like you and me) the opportunity to make high ticket commissions online working from home (like $1,000+ per sale)
It does this using a 'Licencing Model'. Meaning you must buy the products first... thus gaining the ownership rights to be able to earn commissions on those products when you go out and re-sell them to others.
Unfortunately it's only after you spend tons of money with DA that you realize their 'products' are really just further up-sells... and more about selling on their business model rather than teaching any practical marketing skills.
2.) What Do You Actually GET?
The idea (or selling point) of Digital Altitude is to provide you with an all inclusive complete done-for-you business. Which they list as including:
Benefits of this Business Model:
- Video Training & Membership Office
- 1-on-1 coach
- Your own phone sales team for follow-up & closing leads
- Done for you Sales Funnels
- Done for you Email follow-ups
- HIgh commission back end products
- DFY branding solutions
- Traffic & social media solutions
- Latest tools & resources
- Merchant & Payroll Services
- Support, Forums & live chat
- Community & leadership
- Networking, live events & coaching
2.1.) The Full Digital Altitude Product Suite
Here are the main products and how they're arranged:

The idea is to provide an ascension model... i.e. a continuous up-selling model where the product line on the back end keeps going up and up in value.
ASPIRE is your membership to access the back office & reporting system.
BASE, RISE and ASCEND are your training modules (unlocked once you purchase them).
PEAK and APEX are your events.
Here are the full details of each one:
Digital Altitude ASPIRE Membership

Digital Altitude BASE Membership

Digital Altitude RISE Membership

Digital Altitude ASCEND Membership

Digital Altitude PEAK Membership

Digital Altitude APEX Membership

2.2.) Full Cost of Digital Altitude Products (price review)
Monthly subscriptions cost;
- Aspire Walker: $37 per month
- Aspire Hiker: $67 per month
- Aspire Climber: $127 per month
- Standard Affiliate Membership (not mentioned upfront): $17 per month
***You choose either to be at Walker, Hiker or the Climber level.
Which level you're at effects how much commission you can earn on the higher products... AND how many tier levels down-the-line you qualify to get commissions for.
For example if you're at walker, you will only get commissions on your personal sales. To get commissions 3 levels down, for example, you need to be at Climber (i.e. to earn commissions on sales that your customers make, etc.)
Then, the cost of the one-time high ticket products in digital altitude are:
- Base Membership: $597
- RISE Membership: $1,997
- ASCEND Membership: $9,997
- PEAK Membership: $16,997
- APEX Membership: $27,997

So, if you were to go all the way to the top... you're looking at:
$17/mo (Affiliate Fee) + $127 / mo (Climber) + $597 + $1,997 + $9,997 + $16,997 + $27.997...
= $57,712.00 TOTAL
... and yes you have to buy them in that order.

3.) The Compensation Plan - (How You Actually Make Money)
Digital altitude pays up to 60% (after transaction fees) in commissions over 3 tiers on products that you own minus 20% paid to your coach*.
Tier 1 are your personal sales... Tier 2 are sales that your customers make... Tier 3 are their customers sales.
- ASPIRE Walker ($37/mo): Earn 40% commissions on 1 Tier only
- Tier 1: That's 40% on products that you own (-20% coach on core products*)
- ASPIRE Hiker ($67/mo): Earn 50% commissions over 2 Tiers
- Tier 1: 40% on products that you own (-20% coach on core products*)
- Tier 2: 10% on products that you own
- ASPIRE Climber ($127/mo): Earn up to 60% commissions over 3 Tiers
- Tier 1: 45% on products that you own (-20% coach on core products*)
- Tier 2: 10% on products that you own
- Tier 3: 5% on products that you own
*The big problem here is... if you're going to invest in Digital Altitude the reality is you ARE going to use the coach / phone sales team to close sales for you.
Let's be real here... You're NOT paying all this money for an automated system... only to have to get on the phone and start closing your prospects yourself.
I mean one of the biggest selling points of the system... is that you will have your own personal coach & phone sales team working for you!
However what you don't find out until later is that they actually take half your commissions from your personal sales... to pay for the phone sales team & coaches.
So realistically... you will only earn 20% on Tier 1.

Therefore on the one-time high ticket products in digital altitude, you realistically earn:
- Base ($597): Affiliate payout at (20%) = $119.40
- RISE Membership ($1,997): Affiliate payout at (20%) = $399.25
- ASCEND Membership ($9,997): Affiliate payout at (20%) = $1,999.40
- PEAK Membership ($16,997): Affiliate payout at (20%) = $3,399.40
- APEX Membership ($27,997): Affiliate payout at (20%) = $5,599.40
If you close the sales yourself it bumps up to 40% payout.
so 20% commission on high ticket products? hmmm you can get way better commission rates with other programs.
I also find it misleading because they are advertising up front the scenario which is the rare exception... in order to make their income projections look better on paper (using 40% and not 20%) when they do worked examples to show you how much money you could be making.
When the reality is... you won't be making those commissions.
3.1.) Other Costs You Need To Be Aware Of
Despite Digital Altitude having the sales, merchant stuff, support, back office all taken care of, you will still need to outlay money for basic 3rd party marketing tools, Like;
- Blog / Website Builder
- Domain name (to buy your own unique www. names)
- Web Hosting
- Funnel Builder (Create your own landing pages, bridge pages, promo pages etc.)
- Auto-Responder (like GetResponse or AWeber)
- Link tracking services - for masking your links & tracking conversions
These are not included in Digital Altitude but are the usual tools all online marketers need.
Digital Altitude sometimes recommend these 3rd party tools and services, and make further commissions from your leads, when your leads purchase these generic tools & software.
4.) Can You ACTUALLY Make Money?
[PROOF] My Results
I believe that for beginners or people who don't already know at least how to market online it will be very difficult to make money.
I believe the majority (not all, but most) of the people who have results are experienced marketers. When Digitial Altitude first launched in early 2016 the word spread like wildfire in the industry and so many marketers jumped onto it for the program launch.
So most of these people already had big lists to market to... big followings on Facebook... and were able to get a lot of the really amazing results you see.
Then they showcase these amazing results... like getting $30k their first month with an easy done for you system... but the truth is these are unrealistic for average beginners,
4.1.) My Results - [PROOF] that it actually DOESN'T convert that good
Personally I only ever got involved to the RISE level as my aim was to test the system out first before I went crazy. Here are my results:
- 2,797 total clicks
- 243 Leads (people who left their name & email)
- 16 free sign-ups (the ASPIRE SYSTEM FREE 14-day Trial)
- 0 paid members (none stuck with it)
So after spending $1,725.07 on ads getting 2,797 clicks to the system it basically did not make even one sale.
Mind you 1,753 of those clicks came from digital altitude's own 'done-for-you traffic solutions' (the rest was from my personal Bing PPC account).
This is including having the coaches following up with all 243 of my leads... and using all their email swipes and done for you funnels & other material.


NOTE** The $1.52 you see in the figure above was due to when DA first launched they only offered a $1 trial and not the free trial (which only came out later).
Needless to say I was fairly disappointed in the result.
MY CONCLUSION
Digital Altitude Does Not Convert Well At All ... (As A System On It's Own)
So Who's Making All This Money With This System?
In truth Digital Altitude HAS mad a LOT of money for a lot of people. Typically I believe it's because these people were:
- Existing Marketers who already knew how to market online
- Who already had facebook followings or existing email lists
- Who were already making $ from other stuff online and so could afford it
- Who could offer additional training and BONUS materials as added incentive
- People who had branded themselves on social media
- Marketers who created their own unique high converting sales videos or funnels
- People who jumped on early during the launch & took a lot of their followers with them.
What about beginners and newbies?
Yes there are a few people I've heard of who went from nothing (complete beginners with no experience) and went on to crush it. But they all worked damn hard and did way more than just sending people to the system.
The few people I know who succeeded with Digital Altitude as beginners.... basically went all out like crazy machines adding people on Facebook and talking to people for hours a day having one-to-one conversations and suggesting Digital Altitude.
Although a lot of this was happening during 2016 when DA had just launched and as it was new it had a lot of buzz about it at the time.
However if you are determined to spend this amount of money and willing to persist with long term daily action to grow your own personal brand with DA as a back end offer, and to build teams, become a leader and deliver tons of additional training... then yes you should be able to make money with it eventually.
5.) Do They Deliver On The Products?
Is it REALLY Worth The Money?
In my opinion the content they deliver is quite poor.
I find there's basically no value in the education (except for telling you how important it is for you to upgrade so you can be 'positioned' to make tons of money)
5.1.) The Education is Very Basic
ASPIRE - Lesson 5 - How to become a video marketing expert

ASPIRE - Lesson 9 - 10 simple steps to get savvy with SEO

BASE - Lesson 6 - How to create an awesome social media campaign

ASPIRE - Lesson 8 - Become a PPC (Pay Per Click) champion

BASE - Lesson 4 - How to architect a beautiful website blog etc.

RISE - Lesson 15 - Copywriting: write your way to riches

Every single training module from ASPIRE to RISE so far is just Michael Force talking to a bunch of slides.
As you can see from the modules above... even after 10 minutes or more into the lesson, there is nothing really substantial.
The information you get is very general and just has Michael Force (the founder) talking about concepts with a bunch of slides.
There's no actual 'how-to' training... where he actually shows you how to do anything.
For example, If there's training on "how to create PPC campaigns that convert!" ... I would hope to see someone show on their screen actually how to create one from scratch... not just talk about it for 10 minutes and tell why PPC is better than Organic SEO.
5.2.) Digital Altitude - The EVENTS
I believe the value in this program is actually in the events.
Although I haven't been to a Digital Altitude event, usually at any internet marketing type events you get to meet really great people, share ideas, get tips and be able to talk to people who are getting results.
Another great thing about events is you get to meet leaders in the industry and possibly set up some sort of collaboration, or get a recorder interview. This does really well to boost your credibility & positioning as an expert in the industry.
5.3.) So... Is Digital Altitude is a SCAM?
Digital Altitude is not a scam. I believe the systems & compensation plan they have in place is pretty solid.
I just think there are some misleading claims when it comes to how easy it is to make income with it, and they use very high conversion rates when doing income projections (which I find are not realistic... because you wont be earning that).
Also despite the idea behind the Digital Altitude system being well thought out, I just don't think the education is near to adequate especially for the money you are paying.
6.) Things To Watch Out For
Here are some things to be mindful of before you get started with Digital Altitude:
It's NOT a complete 'Done-For-You' System
You still have to put in a lot of effort, work and grind really hard to succeed with Digital Altitude especially if you are a beginner.
You Still Need to Get Other Tools
You will still need to invest in basic marketing tools, which will be a cost on top of Digital Altitude, like:
- Blog / Website
- Funnel Builder (create your own unique Op-tin Pages)
- Auto-responder (for managing you email subscribers)
- Domain names & hosting accounts
So despite what they make out, they are not really an all-in-one marketing system.
Digital Altitude Only Teaches How to Promote Digital Altitude
I have found that the training is more about pre-framing you to keep upgrading to the higher packages and so on, rather than actually teaching how to create, build and run an online business.
Digital Altitude won't help you if you have your own business or products... and it won't help if you want to become a good marketer in general and promote other affiliate products. As in they don't teach how to find products online, how to find markets for that product, how to create affiliate marketing campaigns as an independent marketer... I feel they just teach & promote how to go and get traffic to send to the DA system.
If Digital Altitude goes bust... you loose your income and have to start from scratch!
Given that DA teaches you to be a distributor for DA, you are dependent solely on the system for your income.
If DA ever goes bankrupt (just look at so many other systems out there)... then you are left in the lurch and will loose all money you invested.
There are other programs which teach you to make commissions from 3rd party independent tools and resources, so if the company ever goes bust, you wont loose all your income, because it's not tied into that system. Click here to check-out the program that does this.
They Advertise 40% Commissions (tier 1), When Realistically It'll be 20%
They advertise and do the income projections based on you earning 40% on the products.

However, since the majority of people will opt to use the professional phones sales team (I mean why not... that's what we're paying for right?... and that's also one of the main selling points of the system)... the realistic commissions you will earn is only 20% (on your personal sales at tier 1).
There are other programs out there where you can get much higher % payout on high ticket products. (like 50% and above).
Can't Promote Digital Altitude Directly on Facebook or Google
Since Digital Altitude is a "make money opportunity", Facebook and Google will ban your ads and possibly suspend your accounts if you try to promote it directly.
This just means you have to promote it indirectly... meaning using your own website and unique brand so as not to be seen as promoting money making opportunities.
This is not necessarily a bad thing,... just something to be aware of.
7.) Who Digital Altitude Is For
I would recommend this for people who:
- Have disposable income available to invest in high ticket
- Already have income coming in from another sources
- Understand that making your money back is not guaranteed
- Understand it will take a lot of grinding & work to get traction
- Can offer additional BONUS materials as added incentive
- Are able to build a teams and offer additional training & value
- Understand that you prob have to go elsewhere to learn traffic generation & decent marketing strategies.
- Already have some marketing skills or 'know-how' (a huge advantage)
- Already getting results online, and want to add high ticket to their back end
8.) Who Digital Altitude Is NOT For
PLEASE CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING...
I would NOT recommend this for people who:
- Are struggling with debt, thinking DA will be the magic way out.
- Expect to not have to work hard at it
- Expecting to make money on auto-pilot
- Expecting to make money fast
- Don't already know anything about online marketing
- Expect to just drive traffic to the system thinking it will convert
- Are tyre kickers (you must be committed 100% to make it work)
- Have to take out a personal loan or second mortgage to finance DA
- Who have no track record of already being able to get leads & conversions online
- Are beginners online wanting to learn internet marketing
WARNING: Something To Consider...
With a personal loan of $57,712.00 over 7 years at 12.99% you would have to make repayments of just over $1,000 every single month for the next 7-years!
On a $30,000 loan this is a little over $600 a month for the next 7 years.
PLUS you still have to afford basic marketing tools for building your personal website, email auto-responder, etc. which can cost a few hundred a month on their own.
If having a loan like this would put financial pressure on you or your family... DO NOT do it.
You DON'T need to take out a second mortgage on your home to be able to make an income online.
9.) Digital Altitude Review - CONCLUSION
In conclusion to my Digital Altitude Review:
Way too pricey... commission % payouts too low... education not that great
Can you make money? YES if you're willing to work hard at it.
But you're basically just selling a system that's designed to make money... to people who want to make money.
If for some weird... unknown crazy reason you STILL just want to give it a crack...
You can access Digital Altitude by clicking here.
My biggest piece of advice is this:
Don't jump into major high ticket ($2.5k to $10k or more) programs if you have no proven track record for making affiliate sales. If you can't make sales on a $50, $100, or $500 product first... then you probably wont have much luck with a $10,000 or $20,000 product. I'm not against high ticket programs (I am part of a few myself), but learn how to make some sales as an affiliate on regular products first, then move forward with high ticket to scale up.
If you're looking for a better option that's way more affordable and will actually teach digital marketing step-by-step without constant up-sells for a fraction of the cost, read here.